Ryan Topper: Animist Poetics, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Animist Poetics
- Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature
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- Verlag:
- State University of New York Press, 02/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798855803273
- Artikelnummer:
- 12541885
- Umfang:
- 296 Seiten
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 2.2.2026
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic trauma theory largely disregards African perspectives. Postcolonial criticism often filters these perspectives through a secular humanist lens. Examining how African literature uses animism to address the traumas of colonization, Animist Poetics offers a new understanding of the postcolonial condition. From an animist viewpoint, the self is not an individual but rather a regenerative process linking the living, the dead, and their ecosystems. Looking at poetry, fiction, drama, and visual art--including archival manuscripts by Wole Soyinka and Yvonne Vera--Ryan Topper argues that African literature reinvents these Indigenous ecologies in uniquely modern ways. Animist Poetics takes Indigenous--and literary--knowledge seriously, rethinking the foundations of psychoanalysis and charting new theoretical paths in posthumanism, the environmental humanities, new materialism, biopolitics, and memory studies.